sommelier Posted February 21, 2015 Report Share Posted February 21, 2015 Im a big programme collector & just got a Cardiff White City 27/04/1929 programme. cant find to much about Sloper Road Grangetown. So if anyone can tell me more about Sloper Road would be much appreciated. Kind Regards Marcus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 21, 2015 Report Share Posted February 21, 2015 (edited) Im a big programme collector & just got a Cardiff White City 27/04/1929 programme. cant find to much about Sloper Road Grangetown. So if anyone can tell me more about Sloper Road would be much appreciated. Kind Regards Marcus I cannot seem to find a reference to either track on my friend John Skinner's excellent 'Defunct Speedway Tracks' website. http://www.defunctspeedway.co.uk/ Edited February 21, 2015 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted February 21, 2015 Report Share Posted February 21, 2015 According to "Homes of British Speedway" it ran the sport from 1928-1937.Track length 396 yards.The first ever meeting was on Boxing day when Champ Upham won the Cardiff City Trophy in front of a 25,000 crowd.In 1929 it seems an amazing 55 meetings were held!!!!But things went rapidly downhill and it wasn't a success 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sommelier Posted February 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2015 According to "Homes of British Speedway" it ran the sport from 1928-1937.Track length 396 yards.The first ever meeting was on Boxing day when Champ Upham won the Cardiff City Trophy in front of a 25,000 crowd.In 1929 it seems an amazing 55 meetings were held!!!!But things went rapidly downhill and it wasn't a success Thanks so much for your information I cannot seem to find a reference to either track on my friend John Skinner's excellent 'Defunct Speedway Tracks' website. http://www.defunctspeedway.co.uk/ Hi Gustix, iv sent John a pic of the programme, he as quite a few of my programmes on his site. kind Regards Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sotonian Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 According to "Homes of British Speedway" it ran the sport from 1928-1937.Track length 396 yards.The first ever meeting was on Boxing day when Champ Upham won the Cardiff City Trophy in front of a 25,000 crowd.In 1929 it seems an amazing 55 meetings were held!!!!But things went rapidly downhill and it wasn't a success In the early years, some tracks ran twice a week so this number was not unusual back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCB Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 No idea if this link works but here is a photo of how the "stadium" looks these days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 In the early years, some tracks ran twice a week so this number was not unusual back then. Of course.And the "season" was as long as they wanted really.After the opening meeting on Boxing day 1928,the first meeting of 1929 was at the start of January.It was boom time and the promoters were out to milk the cow for as much as they could get.Trouble was really they gave too much too soon and the bubble soon burst and crowds dropped.Then they came up with the novelty of team meetings to try and stop the rot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveallan81 Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Some dates of meetings and results from Cardiff taken from Barry Stephenson's spreadsheets. I'm not sure how complete the list of meetings is but I do note the result of the 27/04/29 meeting isn't known so if the programme is filled in please reveal all! Â https://www.dropbox.com/s/z20u6ajglkl23dz/CardiffWhiteCity.pdf?dl=0 Â Speedway Researcher has the results of one meeting in 1937. Unfortunately the date is only given as Saturday 24th which could be April or July. The spreadsheets show scratch races being held on the July date but no results. Researcher shows a match between The Provinces and Hackney Wick, followed by scratch races. I think it's the same meeting but have still to confirm that. Â http://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/docs/cardiff/1937.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penny Cross Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 See here. Â http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/wpw029426?search=%20cardiff%20speedway&ref=0 Â Ninian Park in the background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sommelier Posted February 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Some dates of meetings and results from Cardiff taken from Barry Stephenson's spreadsheets. I'm not sure how complete the list of meetings is but I do note the result of the 27/04/29 meeting isn't known so if the programme is filled in please reveal all! Â https://www.dropbox.com/s/z20u6ajglkl23dz/CardiffWhiteCity.pdf?dl=0 Â Speedway Researcher has the results of one meeting in 1937. Unfortunately the date is only given as Saturday 24th which could be April or July. The spreadsheets show scratch races being held on the July date but no results. Researcher shows a match between The Provinces and Hackney Wick, followed by scratch races. I think it's the same meeting but have still to confirm that. Â http://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/docs/cardiff/1937.pdf Hi ther, private message me & i can email them to you. Marcus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCB Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 (edited) See here. Â http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/wpw029426?search=%20cardiff%20speedway&ref=0 Â Ninian Park in the background. And if the camera looked straight down, it would show you the land the later stadium was built on and used in the early 50 - that picture is taken right above it! Â Another photo here, http://dicmortimer.com/2013/02/09/sporting-death/ The school you see behind the main stand, Ninian Park School, is still there to this day. Edited February 23, 2015 by SCB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sommelier Posted February 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 And if the camera looked straight down, it would show you the land the later stadium was built on and used in the early 50 - that picture is taken right above it! Â Another photo here, http://dicmortimer.com/2013/02/09/sporting-death/ The school you see behind the main stand, Ninian Park School, is still there to this day. Wow, thanks very much 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 Some dates of meetings and results from Cardiff taken from Barry Stephenson's spreadsheets. I'm not sure how complete the list of meetings is but I do note the result of the 27/04/29 meeting isn't known so if the programme is filled in please reveal all!  https://www.dropbox.com/s/z20u6ajglkl23dz/CardiffWhiteCity.pdf?dl=0  Speedway Researcher has the results of one meeting in 1937. Unfortunately the date is only given as Saturday 24th which could be April or July. The spreadsheets show scratch races being held on the July date but no results. Researcher shows a match between The Provinces and Hackney Wick, followed by scratch races. I think it's the same meeting but have still to confirm that.  http://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/docs/cardiff/1937.pdf  It was 24th July 1937 and the actual programme cover is displayed in the Old Programme Gallery on the speedwayswapshop.co.uk website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Eye Posted February 28, 2015 Report Share Posted February 28, 2015 And if the camera looked straight down, it would show you the land the later stadium was built on and used in the early 50 - that picture is taken right above it! Â Another photo here, http://dicmortimer.com/2013/02/09/sporting-death/ The school you see behind the main stand, Ninian Park School, is still there to this day. Not a very factual report on the GP at Cardiff in that article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 1, 2015 Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 (edited) Not a very factual report on the GP at Cardiff in that article. I find the speedway reference to Cardiff and speedway interesting. Its analysis of the GP there and the event's lack of a local link especially interesting more so how it also feels about sports events at Wembley, http://dicmortimer.com/2013/02/09/sporting-death/ Edited March 1, 2015 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sommelier Posted March 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 I find the speedway reference to Cardiff and speedway interesting. It's analysis of the GP there and the event's lack of a local link especially interesting more so how it also feels about sports events at Wembley, http://dicmortimer.com/2013/02/09/sporting-death/ Very interesting link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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